[SBB] Monte Bello pond: GC Sparrows return, etc.

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

Hello All,

 

Things have been slow at the pond below Gate 5 at Monte Bello this week. In clammy fog this AM 9/17/2007, at least 2 Golden-crowned Sparrows were my first of the season. The summer sparrows seem to have moved on, although I had a group of 3 Chipping Sparrows including both juvenile and adult birds as recently as 9/13. The GCSPs are the leading edge of the fall sparrows there, so I look forward to some more arrivals soon.

 

Also at the pond this morning was a single Wilson's Snipe and at least 2 Soras (may have heard a third also.) A Sharp-shinned Hawk hushed things down with a quick flyover. One dull Yellow Warbler stopped in briefly, and a single Wilson's Warbler held out in the willows where it has lingered for at least a week now. A female Black-throated Gray Warbler was at the gate itself back on 9/12.

 

--Garth Harwood

 

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